Caracas on the Potomac - or is it Washington on the Guaire?
(…a cesspool or a sewer?) Quico says: This editorial in The New Republic brings me around to a theme you’ve seen here before: the eerie parallels between George...
(…a cesspool or a sewer?) Quico says: This editorial in The New Republic brings me around to a theme you’ve seen here before: the eerie parallels between George...
Katy says: Maria Campos came to Venezuela from her native Colombia 33 years ago, looking for a better life. She had three Venezuelan children. One of them, Nay...
Quico says: So Barb Walters’ drooling interview with Chávez pretty much blows a hole in my earlier, only-cranks-take- Chávez-seriously-in- the-US argument. Deep, deep sigh. Frankly, I find it...
Quico says: Two weeks ago, I wrote this long piece on the deeper reasons why chavismo is so profoundly unacceptable to those of us in the opposition. I...
Quico says: This Al Qaeda threat thing has thrown the Chávez government completely for a loop. This one was definitely not in their play-book, they seem to have...
Quico says: Political common sense is a bit like atmospheric pressure – omnipresent, terrifically important, but normally imperceptible to us. Political common sense is an implicit set of...
Quico says: Don’t miss this provocative article by Francisco Rodríguez in the current Foreign Policy. Key graf: The most commonly cited statistic in defense of the Chávez-helps-the-poor hypothesis...
Quico says: So, it has started. With his vow to nationalize CANTV and the electricity sector, Chavez has finally put some meat on the bones of “21st Century...
Katy says: Christmas is upon us once again. Most people in Venezuela have left politics behind for a few weeks and have thrown themselves into their annual rituals...
Katy says: Last night, Globovisión held a town-hall meeting with opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. It was an interesting broadcast since it allowed the candidate to get all sorts...
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